Over 90 Percent Of Protests This Summer Were Peaceful, Report Finds

While riots and alleged "violent uprisings" have “dominated political discourse,” about 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that have occurred in the United States this summer remained peaceful, according to The Washington Post.

A new report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, found that out of 7,750 protests between May 26 and Aug. 22 in 2,400 locations across the U.S., about 220 became "violent" — a term defined as “demonstrators fighting with police or with counterprotesters.”

In the violent cases, the report said, violence was “largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city.”

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